On 9 April 2018, the Home Office published a new \u2018Serious Violence Strategy\u2019, available in the Libraries of both Houses, including 61 recommendations spanning cross government departments to take action to address serious violence, and in particular, the recent increases in knife crime, gun crime and homicide. The strategy puts a stronger emphasis on steering young people away from violence, helping them to change their behaviour and actions before they reach the stage where they are at risk of entering the criminal justice system.<\/p>
The Department for Education is making relationships education compulsory in all primary schools, relationships and sex education compulsory in all secondary schools and health education compulsory in all state-funded schools. Under the new reforms, the draft guidance, attached, sets out that pupils should develop positive, respectful relationships, including with their peers; and that violence is never acceptable. The draft guidance also covers awareness of violence and exploitation by gangs, as well as criminal exploitation, for example through gang involvement or \u2018county lines\u2019 drugs operations.<\/p>
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Citizenship education also helps to provide pupils with knowledge, skills and understanding to prepare them to play a full and active part in society \u2013 including an understanding of the role of law and the justice system in our society and how laws are shaped and enforced.<\/p>
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In addition, the \u2018Keeping Children Safe in Education\u2019 statutory guidance, attached, sets out the legal duties that all schools must have regard to when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4689", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton"} } , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Agnew of Oulton"} , "attachment" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1005636/answer/attachment/1", "fileName" : {"_value" : "HL11407_draft_guidance_relationships_education.pdf"} , "title" : "HL11407_draft_guidance_relationships_education"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1005636/answer/attachment/2", "fileName" : {"_value" : "HL11407_Keeping_Children_Safe_in_Education__3_September_2018_14.09.18.pdf"} , "title" : "HL11407_Keeping_Children_Safe_in_Education__3_Sept"} ], "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2018-11-26", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2018-11-26T12:30:18.63Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-11-12", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Children: Crime Prevention"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "2"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government what education programmes (1) are in place, and (2) they intend to put in place, to enable schools and families to engage with children to prevent their becoming involved in criminality, gangs and violent behaviour.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2170", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Ouseley"} } , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Ouseley"} ], "uin" : "HL11407"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1005758", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1005758/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Please see the attached table which provides the number and proportion[1],[2] <\/sup>of full and part-time regular teachers in service in state funded schools who are paid on the main, upper, leadership, other and unknown pay ranges in South Cambridgeshire constituency and in England in November 2017. Within the table, the \u2018Other\u2019 column includes the leading practitioners[3] and unqualified teachers[4] pay ranges and the \u2018Unknown\u2019 column relates to invalid codes entered by schools during the collection process that were not amended by the schools after being identified as invalid.<\/p> <\/p> [1] Excludes centrally employed staff.<\/p> [2] Figures 3 or less have been suppressed.<\/p> [3] Leading practitioners are qualified teachers who are employed in posts that the relevant body has determined have the primary purpose of modelling and leading improvement of teaching skills.<\/p> [4] Unqualified teachers are teachers who are not a qualified teacher and who is prescribed by Order under section 122(5) of the Act as a school teacher for the purposes of that section.<\/p> [5] Includes leading practitioner and unqualified pay ranges.<\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1005793/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The government takes seriously its role in promoting inclusion and equality in education settings and the Equality Act 2010 (together with Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014) is a foundation stone on which our special educational needs (SEN) and disability system sits. The Equality Act requires all schools (whether maintained or academy) to produce an accessibility plan. These plans are about ensuring that all aspects of school life are accessible to disabled pupils. The Act also requires local authorities to produce accessibility strategies with the same aims as the school-level plan, but with different coverage.<\/p>